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Cohen, Susan | In search of visual privacy in a technological world | Americans value a "right to privacy" even though that right is not spelled out in the Constitution, and only loosely defined in a patchwork of federal and state laws. Much of our understanding of privacy is rooted in the Fourth Amendment, but when the First Congress wrote the Fourth Amendment, no on... | Privacy, Right of - United States; Electronic surveillance - United States | 2014-05 |
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Weller, Kristine C. | Incarceration, art, and agency: newspaper portrayals as an outlet for creative expression inside Japanese American relocation camps | The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of art in publications created by interned Japanese Americans during World War II. Newspapers and magazines published inside internment camps were examined to see how they depicted art as a response to various needs and loss, in what ways camp public... | | 2023 |
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Pace, Eliza Jane | High School curriculum on social media and mental wellbeing: combating the negative effects through education and application | Over the past ten years, there has been a significant rise of depression and suicide rates in adolescents. These rates coincide almost exactly with the rise in smartphone use and the development of social media. Evidence of multiple studies over the last twenty years suggests that social media plays... | | 2021 |
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Sonderegger, John Christian | A New Era: War, Crime, Terrorism and Propaganda in the Digital Age | The evolution of the Internet has changed global dynamics and international relations drastically, possibly more than any other single invention or creation. But the Internet is not just a singular action, object, or device, it is the connection of communications, relationships, ideologies, governme... | | 2018 |
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Morgan, Kate | Social media as the modern diary: authenticity and prevalence of personal record keeping | Social media is one of the newest forms of publishing, catering mainly to an individual and their thoughts to an audience ranging from anyone who uses a particular platform, to a curated list of those they have allowed to follow them. It has become a part of daily life for many, allowing anyone to p... | Social Media; Personal Records; Journaling; Authenticity | 2023 |
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Thorne, Samanta | Effects of Bribery and Terrorism to 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics' Profitability | The purpose of this paper is to analyze effects that bribery and the 9/11 terrorist attacks had on the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games' profitability. More specifically in terms of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee's (SLOC) operating budget and how the two events affected committee actions to... | | 2019 |
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Scoma, Anthony | Hate speech in 2st century jurisprudence: an analysis of the current interpretation of the first amendment and the compelling need for judicial action | In the two decades of the 21st century, we have observed unprecedented changes in our communication infrastructure, platforms, and norms. While facilitating the emergence of a vastly more interconnected society that empowers the voices of average citizens, we are also faced with the reality of a new... | | 2019 |
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Miller, Megan | Transforming spaces: Women's use of communication technology in the Middle East and North Africa | This paper deals with the use of communication technology by women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how it relates to concepts of private and public space, i.e., gendered spatial segregation. Using available scholarship and data on female Internet usage in the MENA region as well as se... | Communication technology - Social aspects - Middle East; Communication technology - Social aspects - North Africa | 2012-06 |
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Felton, Caroline | The Argumentation of Relious Policy Change in Restoration England | During the 15th and 16th centuries in England, there was significant political and religious turmoil. Following the English Civil Wars and a secular tyrant, the English people exuberantly welcomed King Charles II. Charles began his reign with enthusiasm for political reform and religious freedom. De... | England; King Charles II; Charles and Parliament | 2019 |
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Parker, Braden | The internet's informal influence on newspaper writing and presentation | For over two hundred years, newspapers served as America's primary text based news medium. That began to change in the 1990's with the advent of the internet. Today, newspapers compete with an expanding array of internet based news sources. This competition has caused some newspapers to fail and oth... | Newspapers - United States; Writing - Technique; Writing - Technological innovations | 2012-01 |
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Eldredge, Natasha | Policies and Procedures in the communication and collaboration of IEP team members for autstic children | Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurological disorder, affecting the functions of the brain that can significantly impair an individual's ability to develop the necessary skills to live a full and independent life as an economically contributing member of society. Studies from the Cente... | | 2017 |
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Goel, Divyam | Evidence-based medicine in times of crises: what we can learn from covid-19 to adapt early on in a pandemic | Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the current philosophical paradigm by which contemporary healthcare practices are guided. A related field, evidence-based public health (EBPH), similarly advises practices in the field of public health. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated weaknesses in th... | | 2022 |
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Evans, Megan | Linguistic Autonomy and Political Sovereignty: the Case of Catalonia | The significance of language on human life is undeniable: it not only allows for communication, but also contributes to the construction of a cultural identity. Groups that have experienced cultural oppression, such as the Catalans, tend to establish even stronger connections to their language, usin... | | 2020 |
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Pannier, Samantha T. | African Americans, women, and the 1910 Flexner report: progressive medical reform and professional exclusion | Between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century the American medical profession expanded greatly both in size and in attention paid to scientific knowledge. During this time African Americans, women, and even African American women gained access to medical education through the prolifera... | Medicine - Study and teaching - United States; Women in medicine - United States; African Americans in medicine - United States | 2016-04 |
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Quigley, Matthew | Coming out black : race, identity, and coming out | For gay men the coming out process marks their acceptance of and in the gay community. The stories of "coming out" that they tell allow them to share in similar experiences and create a bond that ties them together. These narratives tend to emphasize similar experiences, seen as commonplace to a ful... | African American gay men - Identity; Coming out (Sexual orientation) | 2013-07 |
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Silianoff, Caitlin | Objectified: Bodily Fragmentation in the Metaphysical Conceit | This Honors thesis investigates bodily fragmentation and metaphoric direction in seventeenth-century poetry. I focus in particular on John Donne and Richard Crashaw, two contemporaneous metaphysical poets who are often regarded as critical opposites. Close analysis of their use of bodily imagery wit... | | 2020 |
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Keate, Max (Makayla) | The American dream: how befief in meritocracy impacts the U.S. prison system | The United States continues to unquestionably violate the human rights of incarcerated individuals. Further, the nation does so with a general disregard to whether or not U.S. prison policies effectively prevent crime or in fact exacerbate it. This paper posits that widespread American belief in rad... | | 2023 |
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Meadows, Natalie | Communication is key: A critical analysis of Spanish language policies and ideologies in healthcare settings in the United States | Effective communication is a vital component in providing quality healthcare. Communication between patients and their healthcare providers has been shown to have substantial effects on health outcomes. According to the 2012 U.S Census 5% of the U.S population who identifies as Hispanic or Latino re... | Language policy - United States; Hispanic Americans - Medical care | 2014-08 |
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Heman, Claire | Intersections | This creative thesis explores the intersections of identity, gender, and sexuality, relevant topics in our times of binary gender roles and pervasive heteronormative social structures. This thesis is divided into two parts: 1) an introductory essay to place the creative work in an existing conversat... | Gender identity in literature; Sexual orientation in literature | 2015-08 |
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Edson, Shauna | Writing center programming inside out | Writing Center programs serving refugee, sexual minority and other underserved populations are expanding but there is little evidence to support their effectiveness. The purpose of this research is to examine the effectiveness of writing center programs and determine the populations utilizing writin... | Writing centers - United States - Research - Methodology | 2014-08 |
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Foote, Carol | The Impact of Past Drug Enforcement Legislation and Potential Success of a Three-Pronged Approach to the Opioid Epidemic | The opioid epidemic has gained widespread attention over the past decade as overdose and addiction rates soar across the country. Opioid abuse has been a problem for the United States dating back to the Civil War. With the pain revolution and aggressive marketing tactics by prescription drug manufac... | | 2018 |
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Draper, Mark Helzen | Writing off nature: how literacy changes our relationship with the natural | This thesis will examine how writing has changed our relationship with the natural world. Using a phenomenological methodology in combination with media theory, I will examine the costs and benefits of the revolutionary invention of alphabetic writing on that relationship to our lived-experience of ... | | 2022 |
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Gallegos, Morgan | Her | This creative exploration is a study of how a girl comes to identify herself in an increasingly judgmental and harsh world. Her is a collection of short stories that are linked together through one character. The stories are intentionally fragmented to display the fragmentary nature of identity. Eac... | American fiction - 21st century | 2012-05 |
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Nakano, Jamie | Tennis players and bowlers: the historical sociology of the CIA | Early CIA case officers recruited during the 1950s were characterized by similar upper-class backgrounds: wealthy families from the Northeast, preparatory school education, a degree from an Ivy League, and previous employment in white collar occupations. Anecdotal evidence reported that the next gen... | | 2023 |
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Oman, Candace | Who you gonna call?: Domestic responses to the threat of nuclear terrorism | The World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 demonstrated the threat of terrorism in the twenty-first century-and made the prevention of nuclear terrorism all the more pressing. Despite the newfound attention to nuclear terrorism, the possibility of nuclear attacks, and, later, nuclear terro... | History | 2014-05 |